Comments on: Spanish Word of the Day: chévere

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:44:40 +0000

Although I took Spanish in high school and in college, I thought this was the French word for ‘goat’ when I saw it. (Though the spelling is slightly off.) I’ve always considered Catalan (which this word is likely derived from) to be a Spanish-French hybrid. I could read the signs in Barcelona, but how to pronounce the words? Who knows!

I’m guessing one would say “chevr-er-ay” in this case rather than ‘chev-air’ as in French?

By: Ramses

Ramses — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:59:46 +0000

Hehe, you’re right. Didn’t know that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBUx6Zn6mo

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:34:39 +0000

Here’s some old school trivia: during the intro to Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing” he’s clumsily trying to impress a woman by demonstrating how international he is. He launches into nonsense Spanish saying, “Todo tambien chevere” and the woman coos back with the proper inflection ‘chévere!’, well aware that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but amused by the effort! Check it out! That’s how I learned the word as a child!

By: PNP

PNP — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:02:00 +0000

I’m not argentinan, but the typical words that we use to imitate argentinan people are ‘pelotudo’, ‘boludo’ and ‘macanudo’

By: Spanish Word of the Day: guay | Spanish Only

Spanish Word of the Day: guay | Spanish Only — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:09:00 +0000

[...] mainly used in Spain: guay. Where they’d use the words bacán, genial, estupendo or even chévere in many other countries, the word guay is pretty popular in Spain. An exclamation that’s [...]

By: Ramses

Ramses — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:40:28 +0000

Many people from Argentina here the last few days . Like I summed up in the post, the word isn’t used in Argetina. I should do some posts on Argentinan words. Any suggestions?

By: Menke

Menke — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:34:23 +0000

In Argentina they use ‘copado’ in the same sense and in Chile they use ‘bakán’. In Peru and Ecuador ‘chévere’ is a very common word. Most of my friends from there use it. In Mexico they use lots of different words, mostly ‘chido’ and ‘padre’. But the Mexican Spanish is one of the richest of all, I think. Whole books are written about it, even one book about one word and its variations: chingar.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:08:48 +0000

Once again, this word will never be used in Argentina or Uruguay. I neverd heard it in Paraguay either, and I´m not sure about México. Actually, I wouldn´t use it anywhere outside Colombia, just in case (in Venezuela you will sound like a looser if you say it). Alan’s last blog post..Diario del internauta neófito: 6. El Blog

By: Ramses

Ramses — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:05:54 +0000

I’m mainly learning castellano, but knowing something about the language in different regions of the hipanosphere is always nice of course .

By: Alberto

Alberto — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:15 +0000

Helloo, I’m spanish, from Spain, and I didn´t even knew that word xD
Its ‘very Latin-American’.
I`m curious, are you learning ‘Castellano’, or ‘Latin-American’ or both?

I’m learning English =)

Un saludo!